Impermanence...

Like flowers, everything in life has a process, a time & place...

For the longest time, i haven't quite enjoyed flowers.
I remember when i started going out with Silly Man, i told him not to ever buy me flowers because it is a total waste of money. I have always saw it as a waste of money coz i've always been a "practical" person.

Strangely enough, i always had some kind of love-hate relationship with flowers.

Until last year i realized what truly stopped me from being in touch with flowers was the fact that deep inside me, it was actually a fear of the impermanent.

Especially with flowers, temperate ones that only last 2-3 days in our climate.
I realized that i didn't like the concept of people dying, or for a fact seeing the flower die right before my eyes.

In the past when i did receive flowers on occasions, i usually always try to dry them to salvage them.
But they always turn out quite a mess when they are dried, the crispy fragile leaves to the dust collection. In the end, no matter what i did, they always ended up chucked in the trash. So to avoid this whole ordeal, it was better not to have them or else i wouldn't know what to do....

Over the last 2 years, i really came to terms with my fear of the impermanent and really started the process of enjoying what is called the "NOW", which i will share the next time.

Acceptance of the fact that everything in life, comes in cycles and that it was alright for the flower to die at its own time & place.

To tell myself that it was ok that i cannot save the flower and my biggest acceptance too that, like the flower, one day that this physical body that i have will become impermanent too.

And to come to face with the fact that the body is just a shell. The soul is eternal and it never dies.

Till then,... i am in my process of enjoying these lovely flowers that nature has created.

The beauty of it all....

and now, i start to also appreciate the weeds which i think are so beautiful....

in my favorite shades of purple and pink...
and look at how intricate the weed is......

Nature on Mother Earth is really beautiful.

REJOICE!